New Chief Executive joins London Ambulance Service

30 May 2017

Garrett said he is “proud and honoured” to be
appointed as Chief Executive and says it is “an exciting time to
join the Service”.

Setting out his immediate priorities over the
next few weeks, Garrett said: “The quality of our patient care is
already good and we will continue deliver excellent health care to
Londoners in the face of increasing demand.

“I want to build on progress already made in
the last two years and help set the Service’s longer term vision
and strategy.”

On his first day in the Service, Garrett met
ambulance crews, motorbike and cycle responders as well as control
room staff and those supporting frontline operations in the back
office.

Garrett, who was previously Transport For
London’s Chief Operating Officer for Surface Transport, says he is
proud to work in “one of the greatest cities in the world”.

Ends

Notes to editors:

Andrew Grimshaw – who has been
undertaking the role of Chief Executive since Christmas 2016 – will
be leaving the Service in June to become the Chief Financial
Officer at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust.

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is
the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK that provides
healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive
it.

We have over 5,000 staff, who work
across a wide range of roles based in 70 ambulance stations.

We serve more than nine million
people who live and work in the London area. We take over 1.8
million emergency calls a year.